Group opposes UW 'center' plan

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The Waukesha County Action Network opposes the "university center" concept proposed for the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha because the business group believes it would unfairly target local taxpayers. The group will continue pushing for the college's merger with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

In a letter to the UW Board of Regents, the Waukesha business leaders said the university center idea by some UW administrators would shift additional costs to local taxpayers. The group said a proposed new building for UW-Waukesha would cost local taxpayers $10 million.

"A merger will more fully address the need of southeastern Wisconsin," Margaret Farrow, the group's president, stated in the letter.

The UW Board of Regents' education committee will consider the issue Aug. 17.

-- Mark Kass

Marcus plans hotel upgrades

The Marcus Corp. will spend up to $70 million over the next year to renovate five hotels, including The Pfister Hotel and Wyndham Milwaukee Center in downtown Milwaukee.

The Milwaukee hotel and movie theater operator also will update Grand Geneva Resort & Spa in Lake Geneva, Westin Columbus hotel in Columbus, Ohio, and Skirvin Hotel in Oklahoma City during fiscal 2007, which ends in May 2007, according to the company's 10-K annual report filed Aug. 8.

Marcus acquired the 220-room Wyndham in 2005 for $23.6 million and plans to start a major renovation in the next several months. At The Pfister, Marcus will add a restaurant, spa and salon, along with renovating some of the hotel's 307 guest rooms and meeting space.

-- Mark Kass

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